Holiday solutions for solo travellers

Holiday solutions for solo travellers

JANE SLADE investigates some exciting holiday choices for older solo travellers Taking the plunge and going on your first holiday on your own can be a scary prospect. But those who’ve done it love it resulting in many preferring now to travel alone than with a...
Fawlty Towers to become retirement apartments

Fawlty Towers to become retirement apartments

Churchill Retirement Living has permission to develop Torquay hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers The Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, which inspired the hit sitcom Fawlty Towers, will be turned into 32 apartments for those aged 60 and over, providing secure, self-contained...
Palm Springs – the secret world of Frank Sinatra

Palm Springs – the secret world of Frank Sinatra

To mark the centenary of ol’ blue eyes’s birth ADAM HELLIKER visited Palm Springs to explore some of the crooner’s old haunts and find out what else there is to see in this ritzy desert resort When Frank Sinatra got bored in a restaurant he would...
Anchor’s retirement home of the future

Anchor’s retirement home of the future

Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of retirement properties, envisages us retiring to high tech homes offering virtual yoga classes and even a virtual pet Homes that make living easy and people less lonely are key to ensuring a happy retirement. No one...
Helping you find a new life after retirement

Helping you find a new life after retirement

JANE SLADE speaks to former retail fashion queen Judy Rich about her new business life as a retirement coach It has been 10 years since Judy Rich was in the cut and thrust of the business world running Long Tall Sally, the clothing fashion chain for tall women she...